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For context - he has a ~9m sub youtube channel on phones that must be banking it. This is a side project that appears to be grown out of frustration of disabled wife & seeing the shitshow that wheelchair market is. Seems 10/10 wholesome to have this disrupted by someone that cares


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TrainedMonkey10/01/2024

> This is a side project that appears to be grown out of frustration of disabled wife & seeing the shitshow that wheelchair market is

While it is absolutely true that he cares, I think you are selling his long term plans short. The primary growth factor for the channel was reviewing phones with the repairability / endurance focus, but somewhat recently he expanded to topics such as plugging abandoned oil wells which are leaking methane and wheelchair mobility issues. From what I understand he has a couple similar things in the pipeline.

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hmottestad10/02/2024

I’ve been watching his channel for a long time and remember back before they were together.

If I remember correctly he first built her a wheelchair to go hiking in. That was kinda the beginning of their relationship. I think there was also a stair climbing wheelchair involved at some point, but that could have been a sponsored thing rather than something he built.

He’s also been working on an electric humvee. So he’s a lot more than just the channel where he scratches and tears apart phones.

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